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		<title>The case of the missing pears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been rumours and whispers; questions and guesses. Everybody wants to know: where have all the pears gone? In the dead of night, in the heat of the summer, the Pear Gremlin sneaks into yards across Toronto, greedily and indiscriminately stealing pears for his insatiable appetite. While scaling the tree’s limbs, the Pear Gremlin’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our fruit picking season so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the first week of July, 132 Not Far From The Tree volunteers have harvested fruit from 32 trees &#8211; and we haven&#8217;t even hit our busiest part of the season yet! You may recall from a previous blog post that a wetter-than-normal spring affected this year&#8217;s cherry crop. Across Ontario, cherry farmers have experienced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wherefore art thou, cherries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, an unseasonably warm spring brought out Toronto&#8217;s cherries much earlier than expected. But even though they took us by surprise, we were still able to pick 750 pounds of them. This year, folks across the city are noticing that our cherry trees aren’t producing anywhere near the amount of fruit they have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The act of becoming Supreme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, twenty Not Far From The Tree volunteers gathered for a few hours of training on how to become a Supreme Gleaner. Some Gleaners-in-training were old faces, some new, but all enthusiastic about going the extra mile to help Not Far From The Tree’s fruit picking program. We also took turns trying out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Far From The Tree named a 2011 Green Toronto Award Finalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening, Not Far From The Tree was delighted to share the stage with 29 other individuals and organizations, each nominated for one of  ten categories at the Live Green Toronto awards. Councillor Joe Mihevc nominated Not Far From The Tree in the Leadership category, and we were named a finalist alongside the Canadian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrup in the City: Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time our Party in the Park rolled around on Sunday March 13, we had collected 92 Litres of sap from five of our 10 tapped trees. Last year, the weather wasn&#8217;t ideal for sap collection, and the sap had pretty much stopped flowing by mid-March. This year, however, the sap has been flowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrup in the City a big success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who came out to our Syrup in the City Party in the Park this past Sunday. The weather was perfect to welcome the year&#8217;s first crop &#8211; maple syrup. Thanks especially to our maple tree owners who participated in this program and donated sap to our sugarin&#8217; off. In total, we collected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Sunday &#8212; a sugarin&#8217; off!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering what to do this weekend &#8212; wonder no longer! Syrup in the City&#8217;s Party in the Park, a celebration of all things maple, is taking place this Sunday March 13th from 1-4pm at Dufferin Grove Park. Come on out to the only FREE event that made it to Toronto Life Magazine&#8216;s &#8220;To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Reinsborough &#8212; an Agent of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CSI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once more, Not Far From The Tree is happy to announce yet another laurel for Founder &#038; Director Laura Reinsborough. Through a competition held by the Centre for Social Innovation, Laura has been recognized as one of Toronto&#8217;s very own Agents of Change. The Centre for Social Innovation (or CSI) describes itself as &#8220;a social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All healed up from last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurel Atkinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Backyards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syrup in the City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Syrup in the City program won&#8217;t tap trees two year in a row, allowing tapped trees a full year to direct their energy to healing themselves from tap wounds. Today I walked over to a participating Norway maple tree from last year in order to see how the tap hole had healed up. I [...]]]></description>
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